Jack Brook/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – On a Monday morning before sunrise in early July, Victoria Ortega begins the arduous process of bread-making inside a blue house with the words “We Sell Bread” written […]
SANTIAGO – Outgoing President Michelle Bachelet, in her last activity before leaving La Moneda Palace, has signed a decree that promulgates the national oceanic policy of Chile. The new law protecs the waters along its […]
SANTIAGO – This week, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet signed a decree allowing the creation of the Network of National Parks of Patagonia and the protection of marine areas in different areas of the South American […]
SANTIAGO – Just days after Greenpeace released rare footage of the Antarctic seafloor, Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem has dived in a two-person submarine to visit this remote location and call for the creation of a […]
SANTIAGO – Chile has created five sprawling national parks to preserve vast tracts of Patagonia, after U.S. philanthropists Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins donated 1 million acres of private land to government – the […]
PUNTA ARENAS – Chile seems determined to remain as the main calling point for Antarctica scientific and logistics support. This month two private undertakings were inaugurated which confirmed that determination, one of them is the […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil has launched a mass immunization campaign that will deliver fractional doses of yellow fever vaccine to residents of 69 municipalities in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. […]
SANTIAGO – In a first for beauty contests, the flag of the international beauty contest “Beauty of Universe” conquered Peak Vinson (4,892 m) – the highest mountain peak in Antarctica, included in the international program […]
BOISE – A breakthrough experiment has shown how cloud seeding can help produce rain and snow. A team of scientists in the northwestern U.S. state of Idaho say they have obtained direct, quantifiable observations of […]
BRASILIA – Brazil’s south-eastern state of Minas Gerais declared a public health emergency on Saturday following an outbreak of yellow fever in nearly 100 cities over the last several months. Yellow fever is a disease […]
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